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Children from Kibbutz Beit Alfa on Mount Gilboa, circa 1935. Beit Alfa (Hebrew: בֵּית אַלְפָא; also Beit Alpha, Bet Alpha and Bet Alfa) is a kibbutz in the Northern District of Israel, founded in 1922 by immigrants from Poland. [2] Located at the base of the Gilboa ridge, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council ...
Pages in category "Gilboa Regional Council" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... Beit Alfa; Beit HaShita; D. Dvora, Israel; E. Ein Harod;
Gilboa Regional Council (Hebrew: מועצה אזורית הגלבוע, Mo'atza Azorit (ha)Gilbo'a) is a regional council in northern Israel, located on the slopes of the Gilboa mountain range. There are more than 22,000 residents in 38 settlements as of 2007. The size of the area is about 250,000 acres.
The zodiac mosaic in the 6th century Beit Alfa synagogue. The Beth Alpha Synagogue National Park is located in the kibbutz, not, as many assume, at the adjacent kibbutz with the same name, Beit Alfa. It contains an ancient Byzantine-era synagogue with a mosaic floor depicting the lunar Hebrew months as they correspond to the signs of the zodiac.
Beth Alpha (Hebrew: בית אלפא; Bet Alpha, Bet Alfa) is an ancient former Jewish synagogue, located at the foot of the northern slopes of the Gilboa mountains near Beit She'an, in the Northern District of Israel. [1]
Beit HaShita (Hebrew: בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה, lit. House of the Acacia ) is a kibbutz in northern Israel, under the jurisdiction of Gilboa Regional Council . As of 2022 it had a population of 1,275.
The kibbutz is named after the biblical spring of En Harod, which has become associated with the spring known in Hebrew as Ma'ayan Harod and in Arabic as Ain Jalut.The kibbutz is close to this spring, which was the site of the 1260 Battle of Ain Jalut, the first major Mongol defeat in the Mongol invasion of the Levant.
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